Blues
Subtitle:  an Anthology
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
Published: February 1972
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780025477605
First sentence: THE blues sprang up, probably within the last quarter-century, among illiterate and more or less despised classes of Southern Negroes: barroom pianists, careless nomadic laborers, watchers of incoming trains and steamboats, street-corner guitar players, strumpets and outcasts.